Capita Symonds secures Hatris extension

Capita Symonds’ Innovations team has secured a new contract on the UK Highways Agency Traffic Information System (Hatris) programme. The contract, which is an extension to the company’s current work on the scheme, will see the team taking the project through to December 2014. The Hatris system, which has been developed and enhanced by Capita Symonds since 2005, is used to monitor and report on vehicle journey times across set routes on the UK motorway and trunk road network. This enables the Highways Agency
April 3, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
431 Capita Symonds’ Innovations team has secured a new contract on the 1841 UK Highways Agency Traffic Information System (Hatris) programme. The contract, which is an extension to the company’s current work on the scheme, will see the team taking the project through to December 2014.

The Hatris system, which has been developed and enhanced by Capita Symonds since 2005, is used to monitor and report on vehicle journey times across set routes on the UK motorway and trunk road network. This enables the Highways Agency and 1837 Department for Transport to identify trends and measure benefits from new schemes.

The system accumulates traffic data from a variety of sources including National Traffic Control Centre and 2216 Trafficmaster cameras. Through the development of complex algorithms in conjunction with the Transport Research Laboratory (491 TRL), the data is processed on a monthly basis to produce the journey time reliability measures across the Highways Agency network. In addition, a journey time database is produced and distributed to the Highways Agency, Department for Transport and key contractors.

The new contract will cover the on-going support and maintenance of the Hatris project.
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